The legends of the Panjâb

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530 LEGENDS OF THE PANJAB,
scavengers up to date about their religion are the few TmrstndmAs, or
shortly hwrsis, here given. The proper translation of the word lcursinS/m&
is genealogy, and the scavengers do nsean their Teursfnd/mds to be genealogies
of their great saints, but as a matter of fact they contain also their
stories and their ritual, as much of them, at any rate, as they ever
commit to paper. There is always some guril or spiritual guide, who lives
at some town at a distance from the examinee, who has " the whola
book," but I have never been able yet to unearth any such person.]
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TEXT.
Kursinama Das Autdr BalniJc Ckiru Ldl Beg Ea.
Balnik Sandokh Rikh ka :
Sabad Rikh:
Ansada
Rikhi De
Bikhi Dp
Madadeo Sri Maharaj ke :
Akal Purakh
Andkande Markande ke.
TRANSLATION.
The Genealogy of the Ten Incarnations* of Balnik, the
Guru of Ldl Beg.
Balnik (was tlie son) of Sandokh Rikh:
(The son of) Sabad Rikh:
(The son of) Ansada :
(The son of) Rikhi De :
(The son of) Bikhi De
(The son of) Mahadeo (the son) of the Holy Monarch
(The son of) the Immortal Man
(The son of) Andkanda (the son) of Markanda.f
* In obvious imitation of tte ten incarnations of Vishnu.
t There is hopeless confusion here. Santosha is Content personified
as the son, of Dharma (Religious Law) and Tushti (/em. Contentment)
in the classics. Shabd or sabad (Sansk. Sabda) is the dictum of a saint,
more especially of one of the Gurfls in the Siih Religion, from whence
it has in all probability been here borrowed and personified. AnsadS
may possihly represent the Skr. amtiara, a demon. Rikhi De is